Over recent years, five European PhD programmes have organized a series of 'Bioinformatics Research and Education Workshops'. These workshops address the needs of first-year PhD students and have been designed to combine a maximum of educational impact and scientific stimulation with a minimum of financial and administrative effort. We describe the BREW experience and argue that this type of ev...

Many resources are invested in research training, but very little literature exists on predictors for a successful PhD and postdoctoral training outcome. A PhD program has two overall objectives: to extend knowledge about a hopefully important health topic and to provide extensive training to improve the PhD student's skills through learning research methods and collaboration. A substantial num...

Current literature presents a growing interest in doctoral programmes. However little is written about Part-Time Online PhD studies. This study explores the reflections of a Part-Time Online PhD student as he underwent the doctoral process in IMPDET (International Multidisciplinary PhD Studies in Educational Technology) online PhD degree programme. The paper employs reflective learning approach...

Equations are everywhere! Between the atmosphere and the wing of a spaceship, in the blood flowing in an artery, on the demarcation line between ice and water at the poles, in the motion of the tides, in the charge density of a semiconductor, in the compression algorithms of a signal sending images from outer space. Such equations represent real problems. The Mathematical Engineer can see and u...